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• Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem established three new research groups at the School of Medicine's Department of Biostatistical Sciences

  - 2006-07-01

  Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem established three new research groups at the School of Medicine's Department of Biostatistical Sciences. The three departments are the Section on Biostatistics, the Section on Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics and the Research Information Systems Unit.

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• Wake Forest University Health Sciences

  - 2006-07-01

  Wake Forest University Health Sciences of Winston-Salem named Doug Edgeton as the interim director of the Piedmont Triad Research Park in Winston-Salem. He will temporarily replace Christopher Price, who resigned from his position to return to private industry.

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• Lab-grown bladder shows big promise.

  - 2006-04-17

  Byline: Peter Aldhous Apr 17, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- American scientists have grown new bladders from patients' cells. The new bladders have been grafted onto existing bladders of seven young patients. The new method of tissue development was...

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• Wake Forest University Health Sciences in Winston-Salem

  - 2006-01-01

  Wake Forest University Health Sciences in Winston-Salem named Christopher H. Price executive director for the Piedmont Triad Research Park and senior vice president of the University's Health Sciences branch. (See interview on page 7.)

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• Five questions for Christopher Price

  - 2006-01-01

  The Piedmont Triad Research Park in Winston-Salem is expanding with new projects ranging from opening a new 177,000-square-foot biotechnology research building in 2006 to developing new bridges and moving railroad tracks. Managing the Piedmont Triad Research Park's growth and recruiting companies is the new job of Christopher Price, who...

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• Flexible nanophase organic solar cells have 6% efficiency.(PROCESS TECHNOLOGY)

  - 2006-01-01

  An efficiency rate for flexible organic solar cells of almost 6% has reportedly been achieved by researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Winston-Salem, N.C., with the help of researchers at New Mexic An efficiency rate for flexible organic solar cells of...

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• Piedmont Triad Research Park.(TRIAD)

  - 2005-12-01

  WINSTON-SALEM -- Wake Forest University hired Christopher H. Price, 57, as the first executive director of Piedmont Triad Research Park. He will be in charge of land acquisition, construction and recruiting. He is the former CEO of Research Triangle Park-based drug maker Nobex.

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• Hotelier Doug Manchester donates $5m to University

  - 2005-10-17

  San Diego developer Doug Manchester and his wife, Elizabeth, are donating $5 million to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Manchesters are dedicating 80 percent of the gift to support faculty in the university's undergraduate college. The remaining portion will go toward the school's golf program endowment. ...

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• Doctors' doctors

  - 2005-07-01

  His behavior had been erratic but never like this. He admired a patient's ring and invited her to go outside to his car, ostensibly so he could show her his ring. She refused. When a man complained of an injured foot, he removed the patient's shoe, slung it across...

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• New science grows in Winston-Salem

  - 2005-06-01

  A hundred years from now, regrowing a limb to replace a lost or damaged arm or leg will be part of everyday medicine, according to Dr. Anthony Atala, a world leader in the breakthrough technology of tissue engineering. "That's where we're headed. If a salamander can grow back a limb,...

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